Scraper.



J. w. EGAN.

SCRAPER. APPLICATION FILED FEB. I2. I916- 13Q28,890. Patented June 5; 1917.

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To all whom may concern:

JOHN w. EGAN, or BROOKLYN, new YORK.

SCRAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 5, 1917.

Application filed February 12 1916. Serial No. 77,995.

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. EGAN, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scrapers, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to scrapers. for cleaning walls, ceilings and the like, and the object thereof is to provide an improved device of this class designed particularly for use in scraping off or removing calcimine, whitewash, paint or other material from the walls and ceilings of apartments; and with this and other objects in view the invention consists in a device of the class specified, constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a sectional view indicating the method of using my improved scraper;

Fig. 2 a perspective view of the scraper on an enlarged scale;

Fig. 3 a central longitudinal sectional view showing a modified form of scraper; and,

Fig. 4 an end view looking in the direction of the arrow 4: of Fig. 3.

In the drawing forming part of this specification, I have shown at a a part of a wall or ceiling provided at Z) with a coating of calcimine and at 0 I have shown the preferred form of my improved scraper.

.The scraper 0 comprises a body portion 0 having a handle 0 and the body portion 0 is composed of sheet metal preferably steel and is rectangular and oblong in cross section and provided with wide opposite side walls 0 and narrow opposite side walls 0 all of which diverge toward their outer extremities and terminate in straight scraping edges. The side walls 0 and c as shown are tapered from the outer end of the body portion inwardly or toward the handle, said body portion being conical in form, and the smaller or apex end of the body portion is provided with a flat shank 0 to which the handle which consists of two separate parts, in the construction grasped by the handle and one of the scrapmg edges of the body portion is pressed on the surface of the wall to be cleaned and the tool or implement is forced forwardly and the edge thereof cutsthrough the calcimine as shown at b and the calcimine is scraped off and falls into the body of the tool or implement as indicated at 6 and in this way all the calcimine or other material scraped from the wall may be collected in the body portion of the tool and discharged therefrom into a suitable. receptacle whenever necessary.

It will be apparent from an inspection of the drawing, that, if one of the wide scraping edges is used for scraping paint from a wall, and said edge becomes gummed or sticky from the paint, that the scraper may be reversed, and the opposite wide scraping edge used without cleaning the scraper, andalso that when either scraping edge is used, the other scraping edges will form the mouth of a' receptacle in the body portion 0 to catch the waste which has been scraped. When it is desired to scrape the paint or calcimine from an angle formed by the meeting of two walls or of a wall and ceiling, one of the narrow scraping edges scrapes one Portion of the angle and one of the wide scraping edges scrapes the other portion of the angle, and where it is desired to scrape the narrow part of a wall between a window and door frame, or the like, one of the narrow scraping edges may be used,

should the space he too small for the inser tion of a wide cutting or a scraping edge.

In the constructions shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the body portion of the tool or implement and the shank 0 which forms a part of the handle and to which the side members of the handle are secured is formed of one piece of sheet metal folded into the desired form, the seam or edges thus formed being shown centrally of one of the narrow sides of the body portion ate but, in the construction shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the

body portion 0 and the shank c are formed of two separate parts stamped into the required shape, and the edges of which abut centrally of the narrow sides as shown at 0 and with this exception the sha e or form of the device and the method 0 making it is the same, and with the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and the method of operating the device will also be the same as that hereinbefore described. 1

In the construction shown in Figs. 1 an 2 the abutting portion of the body at a is brazed or welded to secure the same together, and the separate parts of the body and handle members in the construction shown in Figs. 3 and 4 are also brazed or welded where they abut as shown at 0 and it will be understood that my invention is not limited to the specific means of forming the scraper, as herein shown and described, and changes therein and modifications thereof may be made, within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

'Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A scraper comprising a hollow body portion formed of side wal1s,'each of said portion.

2. A scraper comprising a hollow body portion formed of divergent side walls,

each of said walls terminating in a straight scraping edge, a shank member integral with one of said side walls, and a handle secured to said shank.

3. A scraper comprising a hollow body portion formed of a continuous sheet of metal bent to form divergent walls, the edges of the walls of the body portion forming straight scraping edges, a shank integral with one of said walls, and a handle secured to said shank.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 10th day of February, 1916.

JOHN V. EGAN.

Witnesses:

C. MULREANY, H. E. THOMPSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G. 

